Guild Wars 2

so here are my thoughts (pvp)

1. before condi damage change my staff AA burning was 800 and now nerfed to 360 (cannot stack to do higher dmg)
2. same to poison
3. before patch i could stack 12-18 torment 1v1 , and after basically the same 15-18 but with lower dmg now
4. ip for condi is nice for f4 mainly and not f1-f3 as i dont rush all the time to melee range. if i have 3 clones up and i am in range i dont take the chance some of them will killed if i try to come melee so i shatter

dmg overall is the same regarding time to kill npc (which dont dodge, block, cleanse etc)

mimic + MI is nice for faster burst but loosing condi cleanse which is very needed these days

i will edit if more will come

pls share your thoughts

The main power of IP is the on-demand usage of F3 and F4. It will improve the MtD firepower marginally not dramatically.

I was actually disappointed about that. Most skills of other professions have seen their burning and poison duration increased to match the new system, but not ours… So basically we got nerfed in a sneaky way.

I will say one thing based on my limited testing time in hotjoins – MtD (the trait specifically) is not overpowered.

Other traits (cough, PU…) might be changes, but it is very easy for the torment stacks to be cleansed.

In fact one signet Mesmer was giving me an especially hard time with amazing survivability.

took to team arena 5v5 full team

thief is still a problem with its huge burst which make me more alert with f3+f4
but then they went SR if i manage to daze them
blind on shatter very helpful

so we have more defense tools but our condi burst basically stay the same in team fight

power mesmer is still a problem as b4

all other class with condi cleanse stay as b4

and as mention earlier we got condi nerf while other got buff from 1 stack of burning/poison/bleeding to 2 stacks we have stayed the same

with chrono line i think we will be better

condi cleanse is a must with all the burning stacking even if it 1k dps it hurts . thus only torch cleanse is not enough

^I agree, Chrono should provide the best improvement to condi shatter.